Hidden inside underlying sit enduringly and underlying, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 332 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enduringly and underlying tie for the highest Scrabble score from underlying at 15 points. The top 10 of 332 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in underlying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and underlying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enduringly and underlying, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling underlying produces exactly one nine-letter word: underling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlying. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enduring and indulger, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in underlying produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denying, lending, and relying. For points, the strongest plays are denying and undying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling underlying turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinner, drying, during, dyeing, ending, luring, and ruined. For points, the strongest plays are dingey, drying, dyeing, and edgily — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, dying, grind, guide, inner, lined, and lured. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dungy, dying, gurdy, guyed, gyred, ledgy, and ridgy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in underlying produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, deny, dine, drug, girl, glue, and grey. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling underlying turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dry, due, dug, dye, and end. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, dye, gey, and guy — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underlying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in underlying plus one additional letter.
underlying is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for underlying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
underlying is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underlying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enduringly and underlying, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underlying earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in underlying produce 332 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.